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...makers, broke ranks in March and conceded not only that tobacco is addictive but also that the company has known it all along. While RJR Nabisco and the others continue to battle in the courts--insisting that smokers are not hooked, just exercising free choice--their denials ring increasingly hollow in the face of the growing weight of evidence. Over the past year, several scientific groups have made the case that in dopamine-rich areas of the brain, nicotine behaves remarkably like cocaine. And late last week a federal judge ruled for the first time that the Food and Drug...
...Nirvana outside the organizations that supposedly are meant to assist the faithful in their search of the divine. Whoever does not find food in one place abandons it for another where nourishment is promised. At a moment of crisis, when people most need supernatural assistance, all they find are hollow temples given to worldly pursuits. And so these poor souls fall into the hands of some charismatic, self-appointed guru and end up gassing Tokyo's subway, forcing suicides on hundreds in Guyana or trying to escape in a UFO. If organized religion does not serve the purpose for which...
...dubbed his new residence "the Museum of Shame" because its ostentatious decor mirrors the incorrigible excesses of Mobutu's rule. Visitors to Kabila's headquarters, however, are struck by an even more telling reflection. Much like Mobutu's imprimatur these days, the elegance of his erstwhile estate is largely hollow. Almost everything that is ostensibly an objet d'art is fake--the marbleized plastic dining table, the plinths inlaid with artificial malachite, the spanking new Oriental rugs...
...mentioned the human-rights abuses in China without specifically citing Tibet. The attempt to destroy this culture continues. Until the government reforms its policies, Beijing will remain a power the world cannot love. BARBARA NICOL Sleepy Hollow, New York...
...that the play is not be treated seriously but certainly not with the solemnity that the cast of Baal at the Loeb Ex did. In fact, many, especially amateurs, stay away from lyrical, intense tragedies on stage these days precisely because of the danger of ending up as hollow, over-choreographed melodrama...